Bowel vs Null - What's the difference?
bowel | null |
(chiefly, medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
(in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
(in the plural) The (deep) interior of something.
* 1592 , , I. i. 129:
(in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
* 1602 , , II. i. 48:
* Fuller
(obsolete, in plural) offspring
* 1604 , , III. i. 29:
To disembowel.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 149:
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between bowel and null
is that bowel is (chiefly|medicine) a part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb bowel
is to disembowel.bowel
English
Noun
(en noun)- And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
- The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
- His soldiers cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
- Thou thing of no bowels , thou!
- Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels .
- Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels , which do call thee sire,
Derived terms
* bowel cancer * bowel movement * bowel obstruction * bowelless * disbowel * disembowel * embowel * irritable bowel syndrome * large bowel * unbowelVerb
(bowell)- Their bodies are first bowelled , then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].
See also
* large bowel * small bowel * small intestine * colon * laxative * tharmAnagrams
*null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.